the machine is a light-hearted look at the difficulties and frustrations often experienced by those individuals who sometimes think outside the square and try to present new ideas to a blinkered community.

Wonka is such a performer, here he is again to present your Easter Story, which is all about Duffel and Sam. Easter is such a time of breaking down and starting back up again, Owner wanted a story to put things right, full of fun, rescued animals and magic powers. Duffel to the rescue then! With Wonka's approval what more can we ask? He has even let Owner's illustrations stay in....

Flash in the Pan is an assortment of five short stories, to be dipped into each day, or be consumed all at once. Most stories are between 400 and 550 words, with Flash Mob vying for the longest ever flash fiction at 999 words.

"Ted, Ted, come quickly, I think we did something bad!"..... So begins another day in the lives of best fur-friends, Teddy and Roo; Ted, who wants nothing more than to be a Good Dog, and Roo, who, despite the best of intentions, attracts trouble like dirt. For these two, life in suburbia is anything but dull. A short children's story that will resonate with anyone who's ever owned dogs!

Rob works for Global Air Lite and as usual there's nothing happening at the check-in desks. So he decides to liven things up, as usual. With calamitous results, as usual. Laugh out load funny and great a escape from 'normality'.

Buses, the great British public transport system we all know and love, runs on time, or that's what they want you to believe! Mr. GIT tells his tales of the public transport system, and how on occasions he has prevented himself from knocking the bus drivers teeth out. Keep calm, and no violence needed.

In the days before cable television, most Stowbilly teens would stay up way too late to watch local shows like Hoolihan and Big Chuck. A few of us dared to stay up even longer, and the rewards were even greater. Late night television was rock concerts by the Cousin It Band and monster chiller horror theater. Come with me on a trip back to 70s late night television. Just keep the noise down.

Before all of those online dating sites showed up, there were live radio shows that spent four hours a night trying to hook up Caller A with closet serial killer B or drag queen caller C. Nobody did it better than Jim from Winner 100, WNIR.

This is a story. Well, an anti-story, which is like a story, just... different.
The Infamous Roy G. Biv lives on in infamy, stealing from the matter transmitter system that sends people and things from Earth to the moon and Mars. The famed bounty hunter -- the appropriately-named Shadow the Bounty Hunter -- is hired to stop him. She may very well stop him, depending on how the story plays out.

It’s been said that bureaucracy is the only true constant in the universe. Are Cap’n Horatio Smalling III and the crew of the S.S. Craptastic intrepid and cunning enough to break the bureaucracy barrier? Only time will tell. . . .
(Flash fiction space adventure spoof — 460 words, about 2 pages)

Florian Featherstonehaugh is a hired assassin—the kind of bloke you don’t want to cross on a good day. On a bad day . . . well, he’s a professional, but even a professional has a breaking point. Will the Department of Motor Vehicles be his?
(Flash fiction action thriller sort of thing — 1,000 words, about 4 pages)